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All the Netflix New Releases for December

As we head into the final month of the year, it’s customary to reflect on all of the good (and not so good) things that went down this year. Netflix, it would seem, has had a phenomenal year. From programs like Stranger Things and Luke Cage to announcing three(!!!) new specials from Dave Chappelle, Netflix is probing that it’s more than just that service you use to watch some of your favorite movies...although they still have a grip of movies.

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With a new month comes a new batch of movies and shows that are coming to (and leaving) the service, so you know what time it is. Fair warning, though: If you’re expecting a host of Christmas / “Holidays” movies to get added, you might be disappointed. There are some fan favorites coming to the service, though, including D2: The Mighty Ducks, Beverly Hills Cop, and National Lampoon’s Animal House. Also arriving is one of this year’s biggest superhero films, Captain America: Civil War, as well as a new Reggie Watts special, and the second season of Fuller House.

Here’s a look at everything that Netflix is pitching and ditching for the month of December. Grab some egg nog and rediscover some old favorites (or find some new ones).

December 20Disorder (2015)Gabriel Iglesias: Sorry For What I Said When I Was Hungry (Netflix Original)My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Season 6 (2016)Ten Percent: Season 1 (Netflix Original)The Break: Season 1 (Netflix Original)

December 23Travelers: Season 1 (Netflix Original)Trollhunters: Season 1 (Netflix Original)

December 31Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Season 1Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Season 2Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Season 3Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Season 4Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Season 5Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Season 6

Staff Picks

Waking Life (Coming to Netflix)
Stars: Wiley Wiggins

If you're a fan of the melancholy, existential Linklaters (Before Sunrise and Boyhood over Dazed and Confused and Everybody Wants Some!!), you'll be deeply charmed by the filmmaker's 2001 animated film. Rotoscoped a la A Scanner Darkly (digitally animated over real actors), his talky, plotless Waking Life is an oneiric journey that lets you eavesdrop on Richard Linklater's think-iest characters. It's possibly his strangest film—certainly his most surreal one—and because there's so much to unpack at once, it warrants repeat viewings. For fans of Before Sunrise, it'll be a bonus surprise to see a glimpse of Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reprise their roles as Jesse and Celine (in animated form) before 2004's Before Sunset and 2013's Before Midnight answered the question of "will they or won't they?"—Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (Leaving Netflix)
Stars: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans

When it comes to parodying what’s going on in black entertainment, no one quite does it like the Wayans family. Following in their brother Keenen Ivory Wayans’ footsteps, Shawn and Marlon cooked up a script taking aim at the plethora of films highlighting the violent side of young black life in the hood (think Menace II Society, Boyz n the Hood, and others). Don’t Be a Menace… wears its goofiness on its sleeve, depicting rocket-toting gangstas rocking pink bunny slippers and pot-toking grandmas having breakdance battles in church. A cult favorite (with a banging soundtrack) that fans of the genre MUST see before it disappears (from Netflix, that is).—khal